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Amalie Scholl
Amalie Karoline Luise Scholl Gatspar (28 September 1823 - 18 September 1879) was a German composer who wrote songs and works for piano. She published under the name Amalie Scholl. Scholl was born and died in Dresden. Little is known about her education or her husband, Gatspar. She composed some piano pieces, as well as the following songs: Works *“Abendfriede” opus 4 no. 2 (text by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) *“Auf der Wartburg” opus 2 no. 3 (text by Adolf Bottger) *“Aus dem Frühlingstagebuch” opus 4 no. 1 (text by Emanuel Geibel) *“Das ewige Lied” opus 2 no. 5 (text by Christian Bohmer) *“Die Lilien glühn” from ''Drei Lieder'', (text by Emanuel Geibel) *“Die Sprachschülerin” opus 3 (text by Friedrich Rückert) *“Einst wirst du schlummern” opus 2 no. 2 (text by Albert Trager) *“Frühlingsfreude” opus 5 no. 1 (text by Maria Elisabeth, Gräfin von Schlik zu Bassano und Weisskirchen, as Gräfin Elise Schlick Maria Elisabeth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Radeberg and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. Many boroughs west of the Elbe lie in the foreland of the Ore Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Heinrich Hoffmann Von Fallersleben
August Heinrich Hoffmann (, calling himself von Fallersleben, after his hometown; 2 April 179819 January 1874) was a German poet. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", whose third stanza is now the national anthem of Germany, and a number of popular children's songs, considered part of the Young Germany movement. Biography Hoffmann was born in Fallersleben in Lower Saxony, then in the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg. The son of a merchant and mayor of his native city, he was educated at the classical schools of Helmstedt and Braunschweig, and afterwards at the universities of Göttingen and Bonn. His original intention was to study theology, but he soon devoted himself entirely to literature. In 1823 he was appointed custodian of the university library at Breslau, a post which he held till 1838. He was also made extraordinary professor of the German language and literature at that university in 1830, and ordinary professor in 1835. Hoffmann was deprived of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Böttger
Adolf Böttger (21 May 1815 in Leipzig – 16 November 1870 in Gohlis, now part of Leipzig) was a German translator and poet. As a translator, he created German versions of works in the English language, a major project being the translation of the complete works of Lord Byron, Byron. Biography He studied at the University of Leipzig and won high praise as a translator of the English poets, including the complete works of Byron (1840, and in frequent and variously arranged editions), works of Alexander Pope, Pope (1842), the poems of Oliver Goldsmith, Goldsmith (1843) and of John Milton, Milton (1846). He also made renderings of Ossian (1847 and 1856); Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'', ''Midsummer Night's Dream'', and ''Much Ado about Nothing'' (1847); Jean Racine, Racine's ''Phèdre''; Ponsard's ''Odyssée'' (1853); and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Longfellow's ''Hiawatha'' (1856). His own works, displaying often the influence of English prototypes, include: ''Gedichte'' (Poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Geibel
Emanuel von Geibel (17 October 18156 April 1884) was a German poet and playwright. Life Geibel was born at Lübeck, the son of a pastor. He was originally intended for his father's profession and studied at Bonn and Berlin, but his real interests lay not in theology but in classical and romance philology. In 1838 he accepted a tutorship at Athens, where he remained until 1840. In the same year he published, in conjunction with his friend Ernst Curtius, a volume of translations from Greek. His first poems were published in a volume entitled ''Zeitstimmen'' in 1841. In 1842 he entered the service of Frederick William IV, the king of Prussia, with an annual stipend of 300 thalers; under whom he produced ''König Roderich'' (1843), a tragedy, ''König Sigurds Brautfahrt'' (1846), an epic, and ''Juniuslieder'' (1848), lyrics in a more spirited and manlier style than his early poems. In 1851, Geibel was invited to Munich by Maximilian II of Bavaria as an honorary professor at the univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Rückert
Friedrich Rückert (16 May 1788 – 31 January 1866) was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages. Biography Rückert was born in Schweinfurt and was the eldest son of a lawyer. He was educated at the local '' Gymnasium'' and at the universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg. From 1816 to 1817, he worked on the editorial staff of the ''Morgenblatt'' at Stuttgart. Nearly the whole of the year 1818 he spent in Rome, and afterwards he lived for several years at Coburg (1820–1826). Rückert married Luise Wiethaus-Fischer there in 1821. He was appointed a professor of Oriental languages at the University of Erlangen in 1826, and, in 1841, he was called to a similar position in Berlin, where he was also made a privy councillor. In 1849 he resigned his professorship at Berlin, and went to live full-time in his ''Gut'' (estate) at Neuses (now a part of Coburg). When Rückert began his literary career, Germany was engaged in her life-and-death struggle with Napole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Traeger
Christian Gottfried Albert Traeger (12 June 1830 in Augsburg, Germany – 26 March 1912 in Charlottenburg Charlottenburg () is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Prussia, it is best known for Charlottenburg Palace, the ...) was a German privy councillor and parliamentarian of the Progressive People's Party. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Traeger, Christian Gottfried Alber 1830 births 1912 deaths Politicians from Augsburg People from the Kingdom of Bavaria German Lutherans German Progress Party politicians German Free-minded Party politicians Free-minded People's Party (Germany) politicians Progressive People's Party (Germany) politicians Members of the 2nd Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 3rd Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 5th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 6th Reichstag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Schlick
Maria Elisabeth, Countess of Schlick (german: Maria Elisabeth, Gräfin von Schlick zu Bassano und Weißkirchen, cs, Marie Alžběta Šliková; c. 1790 – 14 December 1855) was a Bohemia-born composer and poet. She composed music for lieder and also wrote poetry that other composers set to music. She published under the name Countess Elise Schlick or Gräfin Elise Schlick. Although Schlick is often described as German, some sources list her birthplace as Prague and her birth year as 1792. Little is known about Schlick’s early life or education. She was the sister-in-law of Count Franz zu Bassano und Weisskirchen, an Austrian general who helped suppress the Hungarian uprising in 1849. She was described as a patroness of Franz Liszt in Prague. Schlick produced compositions through at least opus 5. Her musical compositions were published by Franz Gloggl and C. A. Spina in Vienna; August Cranz in Hamburg; and Schott in Mainz. Her musical compositions and poetry included: Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Women Composers
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Lieder
In Western classical music tradition, (, plural ; , plural , ) is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music. The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German, but among English and French speakers, is often used interchangeably with "art song" to encompass works that the tradition has inspired in other languages as well. The poems that have been made into lieder often center on pastoral themes or themes of romantic love. The earliest lied date from the late fourteenth or early fifteenth centuries, and can even refer to from as early as the 12th and 13th centuries. It later came especially to refer to settings of Romantic poetry during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and into the early twentieth century. Examples include settings by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler or Richard Strauss. History For German sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1823 Births
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